Tech firms like Facebook must restrict data sent from EU to US, court rules

Long-running legal saga finds inadequate protections against snooping on personal data by US intelligence agenciesThe background to EU citizens’ court win over US tech giantsTech companies like Facebook could be prevented from sending data back to the US, after the latest ruling in a long-running European legal saga found that there are not enough protections against snooping by US intelligence agencies.The ruling of the court of justice of the European Union (CJEU) does not immediately en